WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether a key component of the landmark Voting Rights Act is outdated, expressing skepticism about using evidence of racial discrimination from 40 or 50 years ago to ...
There are legal and practical merits on both sides of the issue. Nozzolio pointed to a section of New York’s Constitution that says the census data “shall be controlling” for redistricting purposes. He argued this ...
For black residents and their lawyers, diluting the strength of any one black voter is problematic. “If there has been a discriminatory voting change, it is not absolved because there have been ten or one ...
Fifteen years ago, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit flouted Supreme Court law when it struck down affirmative action at the University of Texas Law School. Last week, in an act ...
LDF Successfully Defends Race-Conscious Admissions in Higher Education Federal Court Upholds UT Austin’s Admissions Plan as a Constitutional Pursuit of Diversity (New York, NY) – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth ...
When Kemba Smith Pradia spoke this fall to a gathering of students at South Carolina State University, her candid talk about violence against women and the campus “hype” over drugs, sex and money resonated with ...
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana departments aren’t complying with a federal law that requires public assistance agencies that serve low-income residents to offer them voter registration, a civil rights group said Wednesday. Lawyers representing the Louisiana ...
